Such TV systems have been installed in a wide variety of businesses and have been responsible for preventing crime as well as catching criminals.

Indeed, business insurance firms often insist on certain security features being in place before they will provide suitable cover. Yet, in spite of this, the biggest threat to most businesses in Reading comes not from the local criminals, but from people thousands of miles away – cybercriminals.

Just think how your business would cope if it had no computers. Just imagine what you would do if your data was stolen and used against you – all without anyone breaking into your building?

Criminal activity through the internet is a real and present danger for all businesses, yet staggeringly many companies do nothing to prevent it. Indeed, one of the reasons that computer viruses, for instance, can proliferate is because about one in three computers in the world either have no antivirus protection or it is so out of date as to be worthless.

However, the time to act is NOW…!

The National Crime Agency in the UK and the FBI in the USA are jointly warning of an impending and major cybercrime attack heading our way from Russia. It is destined to arrive on our shores in the next two weeks. The attack could completely lock your computers preventing you from accessing anything until you pay a ransom fee. The people behind this method of attack have already earned an estimated £60m from the scam.

You may well have security on your doors and windows and CCTV to ward off local thieves. But is your computer security also up to scratch? Now is the time to check.